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AUTHOR(S): Rishikant Tripathi, A. K. Mishra
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ABSTRACT Decreasing community grazing land and increasing price of conventional feed and fodder is posing threat to sustainable goat farming and advocates investigation on alternate and cheap sources of nutritious feed and fodder. The present study was carried out on post-weaned kids of local goats to find out the effect of feeding dried Moringa oleifera leaves in replacement with concentrate mix on growth rate, feed conversion ratio and haemato-biochemical parameters of goat kids. The study was carried out at the existing shed of a farmer's home in the village, Baisa, Rewa (M.P). Total eighteen post-weaned kids of local goats of uniform age and weight were taken for the study. The three experimental treatments were control group=100% concentrate mixture; Treatment group 1= 75%, concentrate mixture + 25% dried Moringa Oleifera leaves and Treatment group 2 = 50% concentrate mixture + 50% dried Moringa Oleifera leaves. Dried Moringa Oleifera leaves mixed thoroughly with concentrate before offering to animals. Experimental kids were offered measured quantities of feeds and fodder and leftovers were measured on the next day. Body weight, feed efficiency, Dry matter intake of animals is recorded at fortnightly intervals and biochemical Parameters were recorded at 0-, 45- and 90-day’s intervals. Design of the experiment was completely randomized design and recorded data was analyzed as per the standard statistical method. There was a linear but only numerical increase in growth rate and Dry matter intake but there were found significant (P<0.01) increase in feed efficiency and haemoglobin concentration (P<0.05) on increasing percentage of dried Moringa leaves in concentrate. |
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KEYWORDS Goats, Dried Moringa Oleifera leaves, Growth rate, Kids, Post-weaned |
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Cite this paper Rishikant Tripathi, A. K. Mishra. (2022) Impact of Replacing Concentrate with Dried Moringa Oleifera leaves on Growth and Haemato-Biochemical Parameters of Goat Kids under Field Condition. International Journal of Agricultural Science, 7, 115-122 |
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